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Holger Nehring
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Contemporary historian #ColdWar #diplomacy

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Holger Nehring @holgernehring.bsky.social · 3h
This is very sad news.
jimgoldgeier.bsky.social Jim Goldgeier @jimgoldgeier.bsky.social · 3h
Beautiful tribute in memory of the great Bill Burr from Richard Immerman mailchi.mp/shafr.org/20...
In Memoriam: Bill Burr
mailchi.mp

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Jim Goldgeier @jimgoldgeier.bsky.social · 3h
Beautiful tribute in memory of the great Bill Burr from Richard Immerman mailchi.mp/shafr.org/20...
In Memoriam: Bill Burr
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Stephen Schwartz @atomicanalyst.bsky.social · 3h
Today in 1982 at 10:32 AM, at Cordwalles Middle School in Camberley, England (~14 miles from Windsor Castle), a nuclear attack siren was accidentally activated for four minutes. “Christmas shoppers did not bat an eyelid and life went on as if nothing was happening.” (H/t @nuclearwar.bsky.social.)
Copy of a front page article in the December 17, 1982, edition of the Farnborough News headlined, "FIASCO OVER THE NUCLEAR ALERT," above which is another headline, "Siren goes off—town carries on shopping." A large black and white photograph under the headline and adjacent to the article (but for a completely unrelated article) shows people wearing Mickey Mouse and Donald Duck costumes posing with a group of children and adults at a party fo handicapped children at Chancellor of the Exchequer Sir Geoffrey Howe's house.

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Holger Nehring @holgernehring.bsky.social · 5h
Yesterday morning at the canal.

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Holger Nehring @holgernehring.bsky.social · 7h
Gute Besserung!

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Holger Nehring @holgernehring.bsky.social · 1d
There's a great online map of the Roman road network (from ca 200-400 AD), compiled by Tom Brughmans and his team: itiner-e.org

Some background here: Alle Wege führen nach Rom? Von wegen

www.sueddeutsche.de/projekte/art...
itiner-e
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Alex Wellerstein @wellerstein.bsky.social · 1d
For this week’s DOOMSDAY MACHINES, I interviewed my good friend @cherylrofer.bsky.social about her +30 year career at Los Alamos — topics discussed include gender, lasers, and much more — doomsdaymachines.net/p/working-at...
Working at Cold War Los Alamos
A conversation with the chemist Cheryl Rofer about her over thirty year career at Los Alamos
doomsdaymachines.net

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Nicholas Whithorn @nickwhithorn.bsky.social · 2d
Carabinieri from Cultural Heritage Protection Squad arrest 24 people & notify restrictions to 21 others as part of operation that discovered illegal archeological digs at 76 sites, mostly in Sicily, recovering 10k artefacts worth €17m. Trafficked artefacts were sold at auction in the UK & Germany.
"Ghenos", scavi clandestini e traffico internazionale di reperti: il blitz
La notizia su LiveSicilia.it
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Holger Nehring @holgernehring.bsky.social · 2d
I think he means the astronomical teem: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syzygy_... (suspect that the plant is called that for that reason, or vice versa?)
Syzygy (astronomy) - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org

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Holger Nehring @holgernehring.bsky.social · 2d
'Das ist die Erfahrung, größten Seelengewalten wehrlos ausgeliefert zu sein...Und die Beruhigung ist hinterher oft noch schmerzlicher als die Katastrophe selbst. Weil man da erst merkt: Das Schlimme war immer schon da, und das wird nicht weggehen. Nie!'

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Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung
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University of York Library @uoylibrary.bsky.social · 2d
He's not wrong. Famously, the Spice Girls really really wanted to syzygy zig aaah.

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Holger Nehring @holgernehring.bsky.social · 2d
'Evidently one wants a syzygy'.
jameschalmers.bsky.social James Chalmers @jameschalmers.bsky.social · 2d
An academic disliked an Oxford Very Short Introduction (145 pages) in his field so much that he wrote a 200 page book review attacking it. www.pierre-legrand.com/ewExternalFi...

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Catherine Davies @davi-cath.hcommons.social.ap.brid.gy · 2d
Die erste Rezension meines Buches ist erschienen! Petra Gehring hat es für die FAZ gelesen: https://www.faz.net/aktuell/feuilleton/buecher/sachbuch/vergewaltigung-in-der-ehe-der-lange-kampf-der-frauen-110801083.html?premium=0xb68391faa9b7270bf4297882e4b9d8be88f79d782561045c3a2a3503fca4a3f6
Vergewaltigung in der Ehe: Der lange Kampf der Frauen
Erst 1997 wurde Vergewaltigung in der Ehe strafbar. Hannah Davies hat den zwanzig Jahre langen Kampf um den Paragraphen 177 dokumentiert – und die kruden Argumente gesammelt, mit denen er verteidigt wurde.
www.faz.net

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Holger Nehring @holgernehring.bsky.social · 2d
'Turbocharging growth'

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Financial Times @financialtimes.com · 2d
UK economy unexpectedly contracts by 0.1% in October on.ft.com/44p2krp
UK economy unexpectedly contracts by 0.1% in October
Growth has slowed throughout the year
on.ft.com

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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 2d
This is a really appalling editorial error on BBC Question Time

"Apparently one in three children don't speak English as a first language, why does this matter?"

Chair says "have English as a second language"

Caption changes the meaning entirely
"Don't speak fluent English"

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Holger Nehring @holgernehring.bsky.social · 2d
'Je me suis trouvé devant un désordre phénomenal de la pensée...' - quite a courageous choice to kick off with.

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Holger Nehring @holgernehring.bsky.social · 2d
I did that and got 'Evidently, one wants a syzygy'.

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Anthony Painter @anthonypainter.bsky.social · 2d
I'm not going to lie. I find these numbers staggering. Why would you not? Is it not free for NHS frontline workers?
Flu jab take up

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James Chalmers @jameschalmers.bsky.social · 2d
An academic disliked an Oxford Very Short Introduction (145 pages) in his field so much that he wrote a 200 page book review attacking it. www.pierre-legrand.com/ewExternalFi...

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Daniel Fiott @danielfiott.bsky.social · 2d
Clearly the only font that really counts, but that no one can really use, is “Engravers Gothic”. It is ordained by God himself. It is a font of beauty. End of story.

#Vatican

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Holger Nehring @holgernehring.bsky.social · 3d
[Issue goes back to the Biden admin, which said the same, so this is not a new problem]

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lucynoakes1.bsky.social @lucynoakes1.bsky.social · 3d
Ongoing decimation of British universities part 252:

Apx. 1000 academic staff at University of Essex just received formal ‘risk of redundancy’ letters via email.

Please share @ucuessex.bsky.social @ucu.org.uk

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Thomas Wiegold @wiegold.de · 3d
Hatte ich übersehen. Keine schöne Situation (und davon ist ja nicht nur Deutschland betroffen):
EXCLUSIVE: US denies German request to integrate American artillery rockets | Euractiv
The refusal could make it more difficult for the German military to cooperate with the US and other NATO allies
www.euractiv.com

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Holger Nehring @holgernehring.bsky.social · 3d
[Mit Schweizer und auf gar keinen Fall mit schwäbischem Akzent zu lesen].
meinel.bsky.social Florian Meinel @meinel.bsky.social · 3d
Oder auch:

From the Rhine to the Oder / Germany isch over
pbahners.bsky.social Patrick Bahners @pbahners.bsky.social · 5d
Eyal Weizman: „Deutschland leugne nicht nur den Genozid in Gaza und relativiere den an Nama und Herero, sondern verweigere damit auch die Anerkennung eigener historischer Kontinuitäten – eine subtile Form der Holocaustleugnung sei das.“ www.fr.de/kultur/gesel...

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Florian Meinel @meinel.bsky.social · 3d
Oder auch:

From the Rhine to the Oder / Germany isch over
pbahners.bsky.social Patrick Bahners @pbahners.bsky.social · 5d
Eyal Weizman: „Deutschland leugne nicht nur den Genozid in Gaza und relativiere den an Nama und Herero, sondern verweigere damit auch die Anerkennung eigener historischer Kontinuitäten – eine subtile Form der Holocaustleugnung sei das.“ www.fr.de/kultur/gesel...
Deutschland als eine Art rechtes Sparta
Frust an der Debatte: Auf einer Tagung in Zürich zeichnen deutsche linke Intellektuelle die Gegenwart und Zukunft Deutschlands in düsteren Farben.
www.fr.de

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Holger Nehring @holgernehring.bsky.social · 3d
What a zzzzzinger!

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Holger Nehring @holgernehring.bsky.social · 3d
Es geht u.a. um Bücher aus dem Nachlass von Brigitte Hamann (Hitlers Wien).
klenkflorian.bsky.social Florian Klenk 👨🏻‍💻 @klenkflorian.bsky.social · 3d
Ein wichtiger Prozess beginnt nun: Antiquar Schaden muss sich nun vor den Geschworenen verantworten. Als Zeugen beantragt: Sibylle Hamann und Oliver Rathkolb.

www.falter.at/zeitung/2025...

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Levke Harders @levkeharders.bsky.social · 3d
Herzlichen Glückwunsch! Der Dissertationspreis für exzellente Arbeiten der historischen Frauen- und #Geschlechterforschung des #AKHFG geht an Corinna Peres mit dem Buch über "Enslaved women, their work, and their children in the Datini merchant community 1380s-1410s": akhfg.de/preistraeger...
Preisträgerin 2025 - Arbeitskreis Geschlechtergeschichte
Dissertationspreis Preisträgerin 2025 Corinna Peres “She wants to do it her own way.” – Enslaved Women, Their Work, and Their Children in the Datini Merchant Community, 1380s–1410s „In ihrer wunderbar...
akhfg.de

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Florian Klenk 👨🏻‍💻 @klenkflorian.bsky.social · 3d
Ein wichtiger Prozess beginnt nun: Antiquar Schaden muss sich nun vor den Geschworenen verantworten. Als Zeugen beantragt: Sibylle Hamann und Oliver Rathkolb.

www.falter.at/zeitung/2025...